Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
55 artworks
American sculptor
Born 3/1/1848 - Died 8/3/1907
{"Id":471,"Name":"Augustus Saint-Gaudens","Biography":"\u003Cstrong\u003ESAINT-GAUDENS, AUGUSTUS\u003C/strong\u003E (1848-1907), American sculptor, was born in Dublin, Ireland, of a French father (a shoemaker by trade), and an Irish mother, Mary McGuinness, on the 1st of March 1848, and was taken to America in infancy. He was apprenticed to a cameo-cutter, studying in the schools of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.cooper.edu/administration/about/Welcome.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ECooper Union\u003C/a\u003E (1861) and the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.nationalacademy.org/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ENational Academy of Design, New York\u003C/a\u003E (1865-1866). His earliest work in sculpture was a bronze bust (1867) of his father, Bernard P. E. Saint-Gaudens. In 1868 he went to Paris and became a pupil of \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.insecula.com/contact/A005501.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EJouffroy\u003C/a\u003E [\u003Ca href=\u0022http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en\u0026sl=fr\u0026u=http://www.insecula.com/contact/A005501.html\u0026prev=/search%3Fq%3DJouffroy%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DG\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EEN\u003C/a\u003E] in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.bartleby.com/65/ec/Ecoledes.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EEcole des Beaux-Arts\u003C/a\u003E. Two years later, with his fellow-student \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=769\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EMerci\u0026eacute;\u003C/a\u003E, he went to Italy, where he spent three years. At Rome he executed his statues \u003Cu\u003EHiawatha\u003C/u\u003E and \u003Cu\u003ESilence\u003C/u\u003E. He then settled in New York. In 1874 he made a bust of the statesman, \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.virtualology.com/virtualmuseumofhistory/hallofrhetoric/deliberativecommunication/ussecretaryofstate/WilliamMEvarts.org/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EWilliam M. Evarts\u003C/a\u003E, and was commissioned to execute a large relief for St Thomas\u0027s Church, New York, which brought him into prominence. His statue of \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.navysna.org/awards/farragut.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EAdmiral Farragut\u003C/a\u003E, Madison Square, New York, was commissioned in 1878, exhibited at the Paris \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.bartleby.com/65/sa/Salon.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ESalon\u003C/a\u003E in 1880 and completed in 1881. It immediately brought the sculptor widespread fame, which was increased by his statue of Lincoln (unveiled 1887), for Lincoln Park, Chicago. In Springfield, Mass., is his \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.sgnhs.org/puritan1.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EDeacon Chapin\u003C/a\u003E, known as \u003Cu\u003EThe Puritan\u003C/u\u003E. His figure of \u003Cu\u003EGrief\u003C/u\u003E (also known as \u003Cu\u003EDeath\u003C/u\u003E and \u003Cu\u003EThe Peace of God\u003C/u\u003E) for the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.homestead.com/hereibe/Adams.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EAdams (Mrs Henry Adams) Memorial\u003C/a\u003E, in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C., has been described as an idealization complete and absolute, the rendering of a simple, natural facta woman in grief, yet with such deep and embracing comprehension that the individual is magnified into a type. His \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.nps.gov/boaf/site1.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EShaw Memorial\u003C/a\u003E in Boston, a monument to Robert G. Shaw, colonel of a negro regiment in the Civil War, was undertaken in 1884 and completed in 1897; it is a relief in bronze, 11 ft. by 15, containing many figures of soldiers, led by their young officer on horseback, a female figure in the clouds pointing onward. In 1903 was unveiled his equestrian statue (begun in 1892) to \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.blueofthesky.com/publicart/works/sherman.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EGeneral Sherman\u003C/a\u003E, at 59th street and Fifth avenue, New York; preceding the Union commander is a winged figure of Victory. This work, with others, formed a group at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.boondocksnet.com/expos/paris1900.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EParis Exposition of 1900\u003C/a\u003E. A bronze copy of his \u003Cu\u003EAmor Caritas\u003C/u\u003E is in the Luxembourg, Paris. Among his other works are relief medallion portraits of \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.bartleby.com/65/st/StvnsnR.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ERobert Louis Stevenson\u003C/a\u003E (in \u003Ca href=\u0022http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-1235526-high_kirk_of_st_giles_edinburgh-i\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ESt Giles\u0027s Cathedral, Edinburgh\u003C/a\u003E) and the French painter \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=269\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EJules Bastien-Lepage\u003C/a\u003E; \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.ushistory.org/districts/fairmountpark/garfi.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EGarfield Memorial\u003C/a\u003E, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia; \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.wguides.com/city/35/150_52081.cfm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EGeneral Logan\u003C/a\u003E, Chicago; the Peter Cooper Memorial; and Charles Stewart Parnell in Dublin. Saint-Gaudens was made an officer of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/l/legion-d-honneur.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ELegion of Honor\u003C/a\u003E and corresponding member of the Institute of France. He died at Cornish, N.H., on the 3rd of August 1907. His monument of \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.sgnhs.org/Augustus%20SGaudens%20CD-HTML/Monuments/PortraitsStatues/BrooksMonument.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EPhillips Brooks\u003C/a\u003E for Boston was left practically completed. Saint-Gaudens is rightly regarded as the greatest sculptor produced by America, and his work had a most powerful influence on art in the United States. In 1877 he married Augusta F. Homer and left a son, \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.sgnhs.org/Augustus%20SGaudens%20CD-HTML/Reliefs/Homer.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EHomer Saint-Gaudens\u003C/a\u003E. His brother \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.irishheritagetrail.com/gaudens.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ELouis\u003C/a\u003E (b. 1854), also a sculptor, assisted Augustus Saint-Gaudens in some of his works.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ESee \u003Ca href=\u0022http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/C/Cortisso.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ERoyal Cortissoz\u003C/a\u003E, \u003Cu\u003EAugustus Saint-Gaudens\u003C/u\u003E (1907); Lorado Taft, \u003Cu\u003EHistory of American Sculpture\u003C/u\u003E (1903), containing two chapters devoted to Saint-Gaudens; \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=759\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EKenyon Cox\u003C/a\u003E, \u003Cu\u003EOld Masters and New\u003C/u\u003E (1905); C. Lewis Hind, \u003Cu\u003EAugustus Saint-Gaudens\u003C/u\u003E (1908).\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cu\u003ESource:\u003C/u\u003E\u003C/strong\u003E Entry on the artist in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://83.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SA/SAINT_GAUDENS_AUGUSTUS.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E1911 Edition Encyclopedia\u003C/a\u003E.\u003Cp\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":true,"HasRelationships":true,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":false,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":true,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":true,"TotalArtworks":55}